Local Wausau News

DC Everest Area School District kicked off its Summer Food Services Program for the second year in a row on Monday.  

Pop star Adam Levine has offered to pay the funeral expenses for a singer gunned down after a Florida concert. 

Pints of blood from donors in Central Wisconsin are being shipped to blood centers in Orlando, Florida this week to prevent hospitals from running into a shortage where dozens of Pulse shooting victims are still in uncertain conditions.  

SCHOFIELD (WAOW) - About 160 golfers teed off at Wausau Country Club to raise money for breast cancer patients Monday.

WISCONSIN RAPIDS (WAOW) - A 29-year-old Nekoosa woman accused of killing her boyfriend on his motorcycle because she was texting as she drove a vehicle behind him pleaded no contest Monday to a reduced felony, according to online Wood County court records. 

SHAWANO (WAOW) - A 32-year-old Shawano County woman accused of shooting her husband through a bedroom door after a night of drinking pleaded guilty to a reduced felony Monday, according to online court records. 

Gov. Scott Walker is in Mexico on a trade mission.

A new poll out Monday shows Democratic challenger Russ Feingold leads incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) by ten points in the 2016 race for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin.

OneBlood officials continue to urge people to donate blood in the wake of the Orlando nightclub massacre.

FLINT, Mich. (AP) -- A teenage girl has died following a house fire in Flint that left two other children dead last week. 

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Legislature's budget committee is expected to decide whether to spend $250,000 on outreach efforts to educate the public about Wisconsin's voter photo identification requirement. 

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Lake Michigan regulators are recommending a 62 percent lake-wide reduction of Chinook salmon with hopes of averting a population collapse similar to the one that hit Lake Huron a decade ago. 

INDEPENDENCE, Wis. (AP) -- Authorities in Trempealeau County say a man who had threatened to shoot law enforcement officers was found hiding in a house after a standoff lasting several hours. 

MINOCQUA (WAOW) - The wind storm that hit Mincoqua late last week likely triggered a fire that has forced a landmark restaurant and bar to close for several days, Fire Chief Andy Petrowski said Monday. 

The City of Orlando has issued a statement on it's website, Monday, regarding the victims of a nightclub massacre.

A man was arrested Friday after police found him passed out with drug paraphernalia on his lap, according to the Palmyra Police Department. Chief Eddie Bogue said an officer was called to Dollar General in Palmyra to check on a man passed out in his car.

LinkedIn has a new status update: The business social network has been acquired by Microsoft for $26.2 billion in a cash deal announced this morning. 

A federal appeals court has thrown out a $1.8 million judgment awarded to former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, who says he was defamed in the late author Chris Kyle's bestselling book "American Sniper." 

Before Sunday night's show, Tony Awards 2016 host James Corden addressed the Orlando night club massacre, in which at least 50 people were killed early Sunday morning in the worst mass shooting in recent U.S. history.

Power is flowing again to more than 7,000 electric customers in South Carolina after a snake got into a substation and cut power -- the third time in recent weeks that a serpent has shorted electric power in the state.